A second U.S. contractor was also wounded in the drone attack on an American base outside the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah.
But rarely have those attacks resulted in the death of American personnel. With Thursday’s attack having killed one American and wounded a half dozen others, the“At the direction of President Biden, I authorized U.S. Central Command forces to conduct precision airstrikes tonight in eastern Syria against facilities used by groups affiliated with’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement late Thursday evening.
Military officials in the region suggested that the U.S. is prepared for larger strikes if the attacks continue. Video posted to social media late Thursday and early Friday purported to show explosions in Syria’s Deir el-Zour, a strategic province that borders
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